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> Earlier this week, we blogged about media coverage of a new report that shows how proposed cuts to after-school and childcare will affect working parents and their kids. The full report is now available here (PDF 1.31 MB).

> A record number of students—four for every available seat—applied to attend NYC charter schools next year, the New York Charter School Center reported this week.

“I envision a hard-core [academic] bloc—four hours of math, science, social studies, English in the morning—then a two-hour fitness block; I’ve never seen so many kids who need exercise. And then an afternoon of hands-on enrichment, kids taking computers apart and putting [them] back together, kids filming movies, kids cooking. There has to be part of the day where they are learning by doing.”

Library Grant Program
These grants support libraries or organizations that serve economically or socially at-risk children in preschool through grade 8. Public libraries, school libraries and non-traditional libraries operated by 501(c)(3) agencies are eligible to apply.

Deadline: June 15

And now for something completely different:

Get out your cap and gown and strike up Pomp and Circumstance: It’s graduation season. For some of the best commencement speeches ever given, check out these picks on Slate.